##  [Literature Review - Caribou, Fire, and Forestry](/resource/literature-review-caribou-fire-and-forestry) 

Organization

[Alberta Regional Caribou Knowledge Partnership](/organization/alberta-regional-caribou-knowledge-partnership)

[fRI Research](/organization/fri-research)

[University of Northern British Columbia (UNBC)](/organization/university-northern-british-columbia-unbc)

 

 

Resource Type

[Report](/taxonomy/term/38)

 

 

Author(s)

Laura Finnegan

Suzanne Stevenson

Chris Johnson

Tracy McKay

 

 

Original Authors

Laura Finnegan

Suzanne Stevenson

Chris Johnson

Tracy McKay

 

 

Resource Date:

February

2021

 

Page Length

26

 

 

With of goal of understanding how silviculture and harvesting practices might mirror those of natural disturbances, here we summarize research describing differences in responses of caribou and caribou forage (i.e., terrestrial and arboreal lichens) to forestry and wildfires. We recognize that achieving self-sustaining caribou herds will require coarse and fine-scale management strategies that evaluate the potential impacts of these disturbances beyond caribou habitat use and forage. However, addressing the direct impacts of forestry versus wildfires on primary prey, predators, and their food was outside the scope of this literature review.